War ferrying troops to Italy for General Patton. His talent as a machinist and fireman earned him commendations, but he occasionally found himself in minor
Wanted to be like an orphan who had bummed around the country on trains and just arrived out of nowhere,
Up in a middle-class family, so I never thought I would starve.
Up for adoption, and Mona Simpson, whom she raised. MONA SIMPSON. Biological full sister of Jobs; they discovered their relationship in 1986 and became
To itself. Jobs went home early that day to mull over the problem, then called Ive
To engage, to hash things out at the table, rather than show a bunch of slides. People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint. The product review revealed how unfocused Apple had be...
They’d ever enjoyed. Almost everyone mentioned some nice experience at a Four Seasons or Ritz-Carlton hotel.
There, so Jobs left a message asking him to come to dinner the following evening. He would also invite the
There many afternoons to seek him out. He was entranced
The simplicity that comes from conquering complexities, not ignoring them.
The beginning of 2002 Apple faced a challenge. The seamless connection between your iPod, iTunes software, and computer made it easy to manage the music you
The British computer pioneer who broke the German wartime codes and then committed suicide by biting into a cyanide
That religion was at its best when it emphasized spiritual experiences rather than received dogma. The juice goes out of Christianity when it becomes too based on faith rather than on living like Jesu...
Tale is thus both instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values. Shakespeare’s Henry V—the story of a willful and immature prince who becomes a pa...
Stories on the company’s woes. NeXT is incompatible with other computers at a time when the industry is moving toward interchangeable systems, Bart Ziegler of Associated Press reported. Because relati...
Special access to her friend Steve Jobs. Here is a selection from her portfolio. 1. At his home in Woodside, 1982: He was such a perfectionist that he had
Serves as a history of digital technology. What makes the book come alive, though, is Isaacson’s ability to shape the story as a kind of archetypal fantasy: the flawed hero, the noble quest, the holy...
Real? Terrell confirmed that it was, and the store agreed to front Jobs the parts on thirty-day credit. Garage Band The Jobs house in Los Altos became the assembly point for the fifty Apple I boards t...
Rather than just websites. Along the way he produced not only transforming products but also, on his second try, a lasting company, endowed with his DNA, that is filled with creative designers and dar...
Proposer of any useful project that might be supposed to raise one’s reputation. So he put himself as much as I could out of sight and gave credit for the idea to his friends. This method worked so we...